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Show GQQLIDGEW1LL LIMIT-MESSAGE TO ESSENTIALS President's First Statement State-ment to Congress Will Exclude Everything Like ly to Cause Controversy WILL ADHERE TO ' STABILITY SLOGAN i Carefully Considered Leg-1 islation Which Seems Ob-! iously Necessary to Be Given Right of Way (Copyright. 1111. by United Press.) WASHINGTON. Sept. it. Pre at. 4ent Coolldge will limit bis first message to congress to absolute es-entlala es-entlala . . . In conference with party leaders ho will begin returning to Washington Wash-ington next week. Mr. Coolldge will determine exactly what. In their Judgmsnt, R will be possible for congress to accomplish in a session which must snd early next June at the Utee, sn account of ths meeting meet-ing of the national conventions of the Republican and Democratic par-Use. par-Use. The president and bis chief advisers, advis-ers, whlls they have not yet formulated formu-lated the details of the administration's administra-tion's legislative program, have ds-tsrmlnsd ds-tsrmlnsd ett certain guiding prflnel-ples. prflnel-ples. These Include: Exclusion ejf everything lately to rlng about ajam" or cause defeat of the administration forces. Inclusion, in addition to the necessary neces-sary routine, of only such new legle-lation legle-lation as has been carefully considered consid-ered beforehand ait which la obviously obvi-ously necessary. I'oetponement of most of ths great controversial legislative questions tor later consideration and action. Reasons for the careful limitation thus proposed are several. Mr. Coolldge lo tends in his rso-emmendatlons rso-emmendatlons to cons roes te stick te his slogan of "stability." and will neither reoemmend nor favor astiea at a short session, crowded with a trsmsndnui -routine proxrsm sn questions that ought to receive long and careful oonsldsration. Ths administration Is not yet sure of Ite strength In ths now congress, whsrs ths Western prnsrssslvs bloc, holding the balance ef power, will have te be dealt with carefully. With a presidential campaign coming on. In which Mr. Coolldge Is the chief eandldats for his party's nomination.. It la thought better strategy te leave development of new party policies until later la other words, to let Mr. Coolldge go te the country with them snd win support from them there. If he can, rather than te try them out on congress con-gress first and perhaps have socss ef them rejected. |